2411 Resource: Feature Names and Descriptions Page for Business Network Buyers

SAP Business Network 2411 Release

What's New Guide	2411 Early Release Series	Release Summary
Describes new or changed features included in the 2411 release.	An interactive forum to engage with product experts providing simple, direct answers to your questions.	Provides a downloadable overview of planned features with links to additional feature content.
SAP Business Network has modified timing previously communicated for the 2411 release feature availability. Unless otherwise noted in the feature information below, features included in this release will be rolled out to customers on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and will be available for use by all customers by November 21.

Features previously announced to become available with 2411 Release

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Enhance Subcontracting relevant Purchase Order transfer with Supplier Batch Number [SBNI-974]
This feature introduces a new field within the subcontracting purchase order to capture the supplier's batch ID and transfer it to SAP Business Network.

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Purchase Orders Analytics for Suppliers [BCS3-2478] - Feature For Suppliers
With this feature, SAP Business Network offers data analytics on your purchase orders to help you better understand your customers and business. The information is presented in the Purchase Orders Overview view of the new Analytics dashboard in the SAP Business Network user interface for suppliers.

Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2411 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by December 31st.

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Invoices Analytics for Suppliers [BCS3-2488] - Feature For Suppliers
With this feature, SAP Business Network offers data analytics on your invoices to help you better understand your customers and business. The information is presented in the Invoices Overview view of the new Analytics dashboard in the SAP Business Network user interface for suppliers.

Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2411 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by December 31st.

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Analytics on Purchase Order Items [BCS3-2493] - Feature For Suppliers
With this feature, SAP Business Network offers data analytics on your purchase orders and purchased items to help you better understand your customers and business. The information is presented in the Purchase Order Items view of the new Analytics dashboard in the SAP Business Network user interface for suppliers.

Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2411 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by December 31st.

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Procurement Collaboration
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Community Demand Trends for Suppliers [BCS3-3591] - Feature For Suppliers The Community demand trends dashboard reveals the previously hidden behavior of customers using SAP Business Network. Suppliers may identify trends and opportunities using the network’s machine learning–driven commodity enrichment process. Suppliers have access to the following capabilities to help them craft their product and portfolio strategy: Demand trends by the UNSPSC taxonomy, using community order data. Demand by order amount, units ordered, and average unit price for a selected date range. Market landscape information, including count of customers and competitors for each category. Top and bottom trending commodities. Trends in average line-item price and order quantity. Demand trends by region. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2411 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by December 20th.	Feature Overview	Demo
Hide Buyers' Internal Budgets from Suppliers [CSC-39156] This feature lets buyers hide their internal budgets from their suppliers in limit and blanket purchase orders, protecting the confidentiality of this information.
Order Confirmation Tile in Workbench [CSC-42911] This feature enables the buyers and suppliers to easily view the orders that have been confirmed by the supplier. Now, a new tile Order Confirmations is available on the buyer and supplier Workbench includes the tile that lists the orders that are confirmed for the past 31 days, by default.
Email Channel Support for Romania Inbound Flow [NG-7046] This feature enables SAP Business Network buyers to receive legal RO_UBL invoices from external suppliers. This is a buyer-specific feature where the supplier issues external RO_UBL invoice for cross-border and domestic transactions and submit them to the Romanian tax authority portal. The buyer can then download the external invoice from the Romaina tax authority portal using the invoice number and email it to the respective buyer account in SAP Business Network. You can upload up to three RO_UBL invoice as attachments.	Feature Overview
View Rejection Summary and Search Rejected Invoices by Rejection Codes [NP-38940] - Feature For Suppliers This feature enables the suppliers on SAP Business Network to view the rejection codes and also search the rejected invoice using the rejection codes. All the invoices that are rejected are displayed in the Rejected invoices trend tile. When the supplier clicks View all in the Workbench tile, it opens the Rejected invoices page that displays the Rejected codes in addition to all the other columns that are already present. When the category is not recognized, the rejection codes column is left blank. The supplier can also use Rejection codes as search filter.	Feature Overview	Demo
Support of Update Operation for Service Entry Sheet [NP-40603] This feature supports the Update operation for SES indicating that the SES, when rejected by buyer user in backend ERP is updated and resubmitted. Earlier when SES was resubmitted with the same number, there was no indication that it is updated. Now the SES when resubmitted is not rejected by buyer's backend ERP system when the operation is update. Note: The SES with operation as update is only supported for Services Orders with Lean Services / Enhanced limits.
Intelligent Invoice Conversion - Identify Buyer Using TaxID and PO number for Invoices Sent Through Email [NP-48723] - Feature For Suppliers This feature resolves the mandate of entering the ANID of the buyer in the subject line of the email. This feature now processes the invoice attached through mail correctly irrespective of whether the supplier enters the ANID or not. If ANID is not entered in the subject line of the email, the ANID of the buyer is identified from the attachment before conversion.	Feature Overview	Demo
Task Visibility Enhancements [NS-23132] This feature brings updates to buyer enablement task framework.
Matching Improvement leveraging Generative AI [PAY-17352] Extract keywords from posting title, description, and categories for new posting: Enable the system to extract keywords from the title, description, and categories whenever a posting is created. Enable the keywords extracted to be matched against the supplier profile. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2411 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by Monday, December 16th.
Leads Search Enhancement [PAY-20376] Users can save the existing search and run them on-demand. They can search for customer name and posting ID. Search can be performed using keywords of a specific product or service. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2411 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by Monday, November 25th.
Customer Configured
E-Invoicing in Romania for Inbound Invoices [NG-6481] SAP Business Network now supports electronic tax invoicing in Romania for inbound invoices (invoices created by suppliers in a system outside SAP Business Network). Buyers can now receive invoices directly from the tax authority portal of Romania known as National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF). These invoices are then processed in SAP Business Network for further business transactions. SAP Business Network uses SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, cloud edition to get the required invoices from the ANAF portal. Buyers need to configure the external document provider details in the SAP Business Network buyer account. This is required to establish a connection with SAP Document and Reporting Compliance, cloud edition and maintain the frequency at which the invoices must be retrieved from the ANAF portal.	Feature Overview
Invoice Error Message Categorization Using Generative AI [NP-38941] - Feature For Suppliers Distill verbose invoice rejection reasons into concise rejection categories and classify into relevant rejection levels using Gen AI capabilities.	Feature Overview	Demo
Communication of Summarized Rejection Categories [NP-38942] - Feature For Suppliers Send periodic (monthly) invoice rejection summary to supplier via automated email.	Feature Overview	Demo
Improved Update Requests for Supplier Integrated via API [NP-47118] This feature improves handling of duplicate transactions more effectively in SAP Business Network. Currently, if a supplier resubmits a cXML document with the same payload ID, SAP Business Network incorrectly responds with an HTTP response 200. This feature now prevents processing of duplicate Payload IDs in SAP Business Network. If a duplicate Payload ID is received, SAP Business Network returns an error and does not process the invoice.
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Allow SAP Business Network Integration with SAP S/4HANA for Central Procurement [CSC-30232] This feature creates the entitlement Allow integration with SAP S/4HANA for central procurement. When enabled, this entitlement allows a buyer ERP system that is not integrated with SAP Business Network to use SAP S/4HANA for Central Procurement to automatically forward purchase orders from the buyer ERP via the central procurement hub to SAP Business Network. It also allows a buyer to automatically forward related order confirmations from SAP Business Network via the central procurement hub to the buyer ERP.	Feature Overview

Supply Chain Collaboration
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Add and Edit Serial Numbers for a Specific Handling Unit [CSC-26202] In the advanced packaging wizard for ship notices, this feature adds the ability for suppliers to add and change serial numbers for packaged goods in a specific handling unit. Suppliers can use a template to upload serial numbers for that handling unit or make manual changes in the user interface.	Feature Overview
Changes to Order Confirmation Processing [CSC-41104] - Feature For Suppliers This feature enhances how SAP Business Network handles order confirmations. These enhancements provide more flexibility to integrated suppliers (that is, suppliers who send order confirmations outside of SAP Business Network) when they send order confirmations. Note: This feature will not be available to all customers on the date of the 2411 Release for Business Network. It is planned to be rolled out in phases, with all customers enabled by December 20th.	Feature Overview
Enable Serial Numbers in Component Receipt [CSC-41682] Enable recording of the serial numbers when creating component receipt from component ship notice.	Feature Overview
Display Supplier Comments in Supply Chain Monitor [CSC-44503] Suppliers add comments to order confirmations to help their buyers understand the changes they made. This feature improves the visibility of these comments by also displaying them in the Supply Chain Monitor.
Commercial Request
Subcontracting Process Enhancements [CSC-31247] Upload of batch and characteristics by the supplier.	Feature Overview
Enable Clinical Trial Collaboration in SAP Business Network [CSC-47278] This feature introduces the entitlement Industry Solution Life Sciences and related functionality. When enabled, the buyer can share clinical trial relevant information with the supplier as part of sub-contracting purchase orders or stock transport orders for efficient collaboration in the manufacturing and distribution of the clinical finished goods. Clinical trial data originates in the SAP Intelligent Clinical Supply Management industry solution.	Feature Overview
Customer Configured
Configure Sending Attachments for PO, OC and ASN to Copy Suppliers [CSC-42299] This feature introduces customizations that prevent attachments being sent from the buyer and main supplier to the copy suppliers in case of purchase orders (PO), order confirmations (OC), and advanced shipping notices (ASN) to preserve confidentiality of the documents.	Feature Overview	Demo

	Integrations
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	Support for Attachments in MTOM Format in Transfers of Inbound and Outbound Transaction Documents between SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Network in the 42K Integration Scenario [IG-46688] With this feature, attachments in the Message Transmission Optimization Mechanic (MTOM) format are supported with all transfers of inbound and outbound transaction documents between SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Network for mediated connectivity users for 42K integration scenario.
	Serial Number Support for Handling Units [SBNI-431] A handling unit is a container or packaging used to group multiple individual items together for efficient transportation, storage, and handling. It simplifies the movement of goods and makes it easier to manage large quantities of products. Examples: pallets, Cartons, etc. Handling Unit Serial Numbers are unique identifiers assigned to individual handling units. These numbers provide a way to track and manage these units throughout the supply chain, from manufacturing to delivery. With this feature, the serial number at a handling unit level would be maintained by the supplier and will be sent in the Ship Notice by the Supplier which in turn would be populated in the Inbound Delivery that is created in the backend ERP.
	Serial Numbers support in Component Receipt process [SBNI-975] Subcontracting processes are quite diverse based on industry and customer requirements. Therefore, there is a need to track and validate the lifecycle of finished products and contained components. Serial numbers play a crucial role in the component receipt process, especially for items that require individual tracking. They provide a unique identifier for each component, allowing for precise inventory management, quality control, and traceability. Serial numbers are supported as part of the component receipt document type with this feature.
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	Automation of Source-to-Pay with SAP Business Network (42K) using SAP Integration Suite [IG-46492] This feature provides an integration package enabling buyers on SAP S/4HANA Cloud or SAP S/4HANA to seamlessly integrate with SAP Business Network using SAP Integration Suite in the 42K integration scenario to send and receive transaction data. The feature provides standard mapping content for 42K integration scenario allowing buyers to transform their transactional data with minimum configuration.		Feature Overview
	Integration Support for Credit Note in Taulia Dynamic Discounting [IG-47954] The feature supports automatic creation of credit notes (credit memos) in SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA based on the instructions sent by Taulia solutions for dynamic discounting. Credit notes capture the discount information while meeting the compliance requirements needed for certain regions.
	Support Change Purchase Order Acknowledgement with B2B - X12 865 4010 [SBNI-485] - Feature For Suppliers The X12 865 EDI Purchase Order Change Acknowledgement is a standard electronic data interchange (EDI) document used to acknowledge a change made to a purchase order. This document is typically sent by the seller to the buyer after the seller has received and processed the purchase order change request.

This information reflects the status of SAP Business Network planning as of November 2024 and the features discussed are subject to change at any time without notice. SAP assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions and nothing in this web page should be construed to represent any commitment by SAP to include any specific new features in any version of the SAP solutions. Please contact your Customer Engagement Executive for additional details.